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Publishing New User Types: Starting a New Entry Publishing a new user type starts with clicking on the 'New' link and then entering the anticipated new user type name into the respective input field. After that, we click on the 'Save' button. In the example, we have entered the user type name 'seismologist'. After a click on Save, we are informed that the new entry has been successfully added, and the form is now open for editing this entry. We can now complete the form. Note that partial entries can also be saved. In case you need to leave a form before finishing the complete entry, it is important to save the partial entry by clicking on the 'Save' button. Otherwise, all entered information is lost. In order to publish the new entry, we complete the form. We first enter a concise description of the user type, which in many cases can be modified and extended from a corresponding entry in a standard dictionary. The entry definition status indicates to what extent the entry is completed. In many cases, it is safe to select initially 'Preliminary Draft.' The choice of societal sectors impacts to what extent the entry is discovered in searches. In order to make meaningful choices, it is recommended to be conservative and restrict the selection to those sectors to which the user type is clearly associated. In our example, we could have selected 'Commercial' in addition to 'Academic' and 'Governmental' since seismologists also work for, e.g., insurances and companies engaged in natural resources or engineering, but we preferred to focus on the more science driven aspects. |